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How to best tell our family we are sailing away?

How to tell the family you are sailing away?

Sabrina writes

We will be headed to my parent’s home next week. While we are there we will be telling them as well as my brother’s family that we are sailing away in 2013 (finally – yay!).

I have been surfing the internet looking for ideas and suggestions on how to best tell them and have not …Read more

Cruising Life

Staying pink in a blue world

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Ann, on HanaCrew, made a sad observation as we sat on deck in the marina in La Cruz: “Cruising seems to make men more manly, while women,” she noted, “watch their femininity disappear.”

Men become swarthy, they get to grow beards and have an excuse to be unwashed and scruffy.

Unfortunately, what can be dashing for …Read more

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2011's most popular posts on the Women & Cruising blog

Happy  New Year everyone.

It’s the time of year when many magazines compile their top ten lists. So we decided to make our own list. What  conclusion can we draw from 2011’s list of most popular posts on the Women and Cruising Blog? Perhaps  only that we women cruisers are a diverse group  – as concerned about …Read more